World Bank literature is more than a concept -- it is a
provocation, a call to arms. It is intended to prompt questions
about each word, to probe globalization, political economy, and the
role of literary and cultural studies. As asserted in this major
work, it signals a radical rewriting of academic debates, a
rigorous analysis of the World Bank and the International Monetary
Fund (IMF), and a consideration of literature that deals with new
global realities.
Made more relevant than ever by momentous antiglobalization
demonstrations in Seattle and Genoa, World Bank Literature brings
together essays by a distinguished group of economists, cultural
and literary critics, social scientists, and public policy analysts
to ask how to understand the influence of the World Bank/IMF on
global economic power relations and cultural production. The
authors attack this question in myriad ways, examining World
Bank/IMF documents as literature; their impact on developing
nations; the relationship between literature and globalization; the
connection between the academy and the global economy; and the
emergence of coalitions confronting the new power. World Bank
Literature shows, above all, the multifarious and sometimes
nefarious ways that abstract academic debates play themselves out
concretely in social policy and cultural mores that reinforce
traditional power structures.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2002 |
| First published: |
December 2002 |
| Authors: |
Amitava Kumar
|
| Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
344 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-3837-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-8166-3837-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780816638376 |
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